Innovate CLiC Program

Basic CLiC- Creative Leader (i)Action Coach

Unleashing, Leading and Developing Human Potential

Step 1. The Course in Creativity (2 days)

Effectively learning to use and integrate the parallel thinking tool, Six Thinking Hats and three of the Lateral Thinking tools, Focus, Random Entry and The Alternative Triangle is the primary goal of this program. Essential grounding in Six Thinking Hats during the first day, followed by the teaching of the three lateral tools on day 2, this second day focuses on the integration of Six Thinking Hats and the Lateral tools via the sequencing of Hats, and the learning and leading of the full process with groups

Step 2. Creating, Coaching and Leading High Performance Innovation Teams: Unleashing and Focusing Human Potential (4 days)

This is a deeper dive into the Creative Thinking/Leading-Action process dive directed at sharpening your practiced leadership effectiveness. With individual consultation, coaching and group leadership as a key driver and learning agenda, you will develop your practiced expertise and leadership effectiveness with the parallel thinking, lateral thinking (including Focus, the Alternative Triangle, Challenge, Provocation (Disruptive Thinking) and Random Entry and three perception broadening tools. (The Provocation tools form the foundation for your needs regarding disruptive thinking.) And we will further develop your skill in the use of the de Bono methods with the collaborative decision making process aka (CDM). Leading and facilitating are the key agendas of Step 2

Benefits of the Innovate Basic CliC Program:

On successful completion of the Innovate Basic CliC Program as a designated leader-coach and mentor you will be able to

• Lead and Coach the de Bono Group Innovative Thinking process
• Use integrated and systematic thinking as an action tool set to enable you and your company to more fully actualize and realize the potential of your talent work force.
• Learn to use an internationally proven new thinking behavioral approach that builds on and makes more productive current and often differing thinking styles.
• Create a new capacity, environment and synergy for cooperation, collaboration, team alignment, performance, productivity and innovation.
• Positively reinforce, model and lead new thinking and constructive leadership behaviors.
• Effectively maximize focus and direct the intellectual capital and emotional energy of your leadership teams.
• Learn to effectively use creative disruption either as a rising provocation or one that is intentionally created.
• Change and move away from positional, adversarial thinking to productive parallel and lateral thinking.
• Evolve/advance your teams thinking and resulting actions to new levels of understanding, insight and creative performance.
• Overcome competing styles and differences and make decisions that are integrative and engagingly participative.
• Strategically align and maximize your decision making process, create better options and minimize risk.
• Productively and positively challenge and lead new thinking for your teams.
• Increase agreement over future directions, organizational goals and intentions.